003 - Josh Boston
Episode description
Josh Boston is a designer living in Portland, Oregon USA. He likes turtles.
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0:00 - Intro
9:00 - Interview Start: What should the intro music be?
11:30 - Portland & The Simpsons
13:00 - How Josh & I met
15:00 - Growing up in the middle of Missouri
16:15 - Josh & Kevin’s Bromance
19:30 - First memorable piece of design
23:15 - First experiences with the internet
24:30 - Rudimental Drumming
25:15 - Ol’ Town Road Story & Hip Hop’s Influence
29:15 - Learning basic web design
31:45 - Old online design portals
33:30 - Seth Ericson
35:00 - Being young & dumb
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36:40 - Meeting Michael Cina
41:00 - Moving to California
42:45 - Gary Benzel/Green Lady
44:30 - Getting better at design
48:00 - Wanting to switch careers
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51:15 - “It’s not easy to be creative for a living. There’s peaks and valleys and there’s times when you’re kinda numb or you maybe had a good year then a bad year. I’m not trying to say this in a negative way, but it’s not discussed as much publicly. I think it’s discussed a lot in one-on-one coffee meetings, but you’re not seeing it from the stage in design conferences.” 51:48
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52:00 - Working at Lambesis
54:00 - The luster of working on big brands
57:00 - Alex Bogusky
1:00:00 - Working then and now
1:01:00 - Seasons of being a creative professional
1:03:15 - Big agency work-life / Missouri / Back to California
1:09:00 - Basic Agency
1:11:00 - Ego & work
1:16:00 - Original content
1:21:00 - Working at CPB
1:23:00 - Working at W+K
1:25:00 - Working on a 6 month project that never got made
1:29:00 - Creating separation from your hired work
1:34:00 - Working within restraints
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1:36:30 - Going independent
1:40:30 - Loving being laid off
1:44:00 - Throwing a recess party in a loft
1:47:00 - Freelancing means you need to be good with your money
1:49:00 - Starting up an agency
1:54:00 - Doing work that solely pays the bills
1:56:00 - Rules for social media
2:00:00 - Know where your money is going
2:02:00 - Jocko Wilink
2:03:30 - Throwing your back out
2:07:00 - Taking youth for granted
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2:08:45 - Freelancing
2:11:30 - Success without social media
2:15:00 - Brain Pickings / Maria Popova
2:16:30 - Mike Cina Great Discontent Interview
2:21:00 - Designers who merge their personal life with their work
2:24:00 - Cultivating taste
2:28:00 - Studios with only one style
2:29:30 - Be careful when criticizing younger creators
2:37:30 - Designer Radar: Braulio Amada, Brian Collins, Tobias Van Schneider, Mike Cina
2:44:00 - Compare/Contrast with Michael Eastman podcast
2:45:30 - The benefits of knowing design
2:46:00 - Outro